Direct Extraction of Topographic Features for Gray Scale Character Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 724-728

  Kim, Young Joon ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b BIT Computer Co   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gray scale character recognition; principal curvature; principal orthogonal elements; topographic feature extraction

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BINARIZATION; GRAY SCALE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; GRAY SCALE SKELETONIZATION; PRINCIPLE CURVATURE; PRINCIPLE ORTHOGONAL ELEMENTS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURE EXTRACTION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029346018     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.391416     Document Type: Article

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